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David Kirby writes about how on Monday, one of the most important legal proceedings in American medical history will get underway at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington. Judges will listen to the hypothesis that mercury in vaccines and/or the live-virus measles-mumps-rubella shot caused read more »
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Juile's written a really nice series of articles about autistic kids. The latest is "Autism recovery stories: Mercury poisoning?". The story is about the story of a mother that learned her autistic daughter was injected with mercury at 3 1/2 and how she helped cure a lot of the autistic sympt read more »
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2005 NYT article digs deep to research studies, and finds nothing to connect Mercury in vaccines with autism.

They found the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the AAP and the World Health Organization dismissed any read more »
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Expert autism thimerosal witnesses for the plaintiff are found not qualified by Judge for lack of knowledge, skill, experience, training or education using the Frye-Reed test, a test used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence and expert scientific testimony in Maryland courts. read more »
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It’s not actually that simple at all. The title of this internet newspaper article is “Government concedes vaccine-autism case” is somewhat misleading.

There are approximately 5000 cases before federal court in the states where cases of autism being caused by vaccinations are being con read more »
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A published study of industrial mercury-release data, conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, shows a link between pounds of industrial release of mercury and increased autism rates. It also shows—for the first time in scientific literature—a statis read more »
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This post is a day late but you can see who planned to attend this Washington briefing - found by Ginger Taylor of Adventures in Autism.

"WASHINGTON, DC Rep. Carolyn Maloney (R-NY) will sponsor a special briefing on the vaccine-autism debate on Wednesday, September 24 at 2:00 PM in Room 210 of read more »
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From I am Sam, to Rain Main. These movies all can give a unscientific view of what you might expect to see from a person with Autism.

Mozart and The Whale
I Am Sam
The Other Sister
Mercury Rising
Cube
Forest Gump
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Little Man Tate
Backstreet Dreams
Change of read more »
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